RE: uk.co

> > as unfortuante as it is, hopefully people will learn from this lesson - if you are going to buy a domain, buy a real one.<
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> They were real, wern't they?
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29359.html>
> I actually hadn't heard of these domains but as the article on the above link says they may be back.
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>They were very real and worked very well with the search engines so I carnt see the problem with them not being propper

RE: uk.co

> Why buy a .uk.co 'subdomain' when you can buy a proper co.uk, com, net which always looks more professional?

If you had seen the marketing material on the .uk.co website, you would understand full well the potential of such a address.

Overall, DNS logs from two LANs I manage, show that .uk.co is users 0.51% more than the .cx TLD (and .cx is pretty common). And in that, around 70% are actual web-sites, leaving 30% as very viable targets for purchase.

.uk.co is no different to the .uk.com domains names.

Sombody has simply registered the name, and is selling sub-domains (though the .uk.co was a little different).

However, it must be said. You must know who is the maintainer of the TLD, and that they will gurentee access, before you consider it as a business possibility.